non-commitment like “I can’t do that” or “that’s against policy” or “that’s not my dept”

Ok, I’m not a native English speaker but… I have the feeling that they don’t know what non-commitment means. Unless it’s commitment to fuck the customer, but then, why bother to offer a call center?

Time for a classic: The Case of the 500-Mile Email

Edit: The site seems to be overloaded, but it’s also on Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20260220060645/https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

Other than Friendica, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube and PieFed, what’s worth running

Maybe Nextcloud (not only for storage, but also calendar, video conferences, office, when combined with Collabora,…)? Also Immich (basically Google Photos) comes to mind. Your own instance of SearXNG.

Any kind of ToDo-list, Kanban board, …?

A ticketing system?

A Wiki to host your documentation? Note, that you may want to access it if the server fails, so…

Some stack of components around Grafana or such to visualize some data? Since you mentioned Hetzner, I’m guessing you’re from Germany. You could build a small container, ingest the gas prices that the gas station are required to publish and build a dashboard for the gas prices in your area? (Hint, here’s an API licensed under Creative Commons - https://creativecommons.tankerkoenig.de/ )

Delays - if you use the internet and request an answer from an LLM, you won’t notice if it’s 300-500ms slower than usual. But if you deploy and run a software stack, a delay of 5ms betweenntze app and the database can make the difference between a usable application and an inperfomant one.

See, when mommy fire and daddy fire are left alone long enough and it warm and cozy…

Real models are trained on copyright-, license- and ToS violations! Those cheap bastards found a way to only train with ToS violations (of a single source, mind ya!). That’s not real AI!

^/s

I had many problems with the NVidia drivers on Open side tumbleweed. But if it wasn’t for that, I’d probably be rocking it, because everything else was to my liking.

How do I do that on Mastodon, Lemmy, Piefed,…?

^/s

No, but I just had 14 verification cans burp urks

The ankles? Looks nervously in the rough direction of the middle east You mean her face?

Was it an official act, though?

lp0 on fire

My journey:

Had some form of Linux for a long time. Either in a VM (Oracle Virtual Box, then switched to S HyperV for compatibility reasons as I had Windows Pro anyways) or sometimes as dual boot.

Then came WSL which eased some things and complicated others. What this makes really easy is to start and play around with docker containers on your PC.

Then I experimented with Linux in a VM and put docker and other software there to practice.

Up until here, there were no costs involved (besides having Windows Pro, but depending on where you get your windows key, there’s not a real difference between pro and home anyways…).

After that I got my own VPS. As much as I don’t like AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), Azure and such, they usually offer a very small VPS for free and these can be a good point to start. If you want to really go and host things, it can be beneficial to look for a hoster that isn’t one of the big 3 cloud providers and pay for a VPS there.

For hosting at home: You could start with a raspberry pi, but looking at current prices, you usually get more flexibility and bang for the buck by buying a refurbished mini PC or repurposing an old notebook/PC. You can just put Yunohost or Proxmox on it and get going.

honks apologetically

If it fits, it sits

I’d say you’re little Alex Horne, but knowing the background of the show, you’re probably both.

MTX - Microstransactions. I was referring to starting a new world and live streaming it on YouTube/Twitch/…

I joked that the caving and mining will be quite tedious if you want to do specific builds and just need tons of specific resources. Many streamers will just go and afk at a farm and/or mine for hours off stream and then just stream the interesting parts. So you could do the opposite: (Also) stream the boring and tedious parts in the whole length and offer you viewers some micro transactions so that they can pay money to send you some resources directly.

There are some twitch/game integrations that offer something like this. E.g. Crowd control support Minecraft and lets viewers pay money to (temporarily) alter the game like giving you a minute of creative mode, forcing you to drink specific potions, delete items from your inventory (or clutter the inventory with useless items) and so on. https://crowdcontrol.live/game/minecraft/?pack=Minecraft

For my experience: Start a new world, get basic tools, get wood, build boat, travel the water to find a village, set up an early easy iron farm and from there on you’re usually set. The fun for me is nowadays either doing some builds, tinkering with Redstone or interacting with other players.

Waiting for a mod that enables MTX for fans. Just spend some money to send them diamonds, ancient debris, whatever in a chest to get them to skip the boring parts. The you don’t need to do resource gathering off stream /s^?